UT Dallas, LSC, and Football?

[GetGRIFFedUp]

With UT Dallas joining the LSC in Fall of 2025, any of you LSC folks heard or know anything about whether they may add football in the near future? With their large enrollment, (apparent) resources, and rising athletic profile, why wouldn't they? Thanks!

[ctrabs74]

With UT Dallas joining the LSC in Fall of 2025, any of you LSC folks heard or know anything about whether they may add football in the near future? With their large enrollment, (apparent) resources, and rising athletic profile, why wouldn't they? Thanks!

UT-Dallas is more of a "techie" school which caters to a large number students in engineering and healthcare-related fields, so I think football there would be a difficult sell. It also doesn't help that you have three FBS programs (SMU, TCU and UNT) within an hour of the UT-Dallas campus in Richardson.

[MooseLodge]

Are we talking UT Dallas, U of Dallas, U of Texas A&M Commerce at Dallas, or Texas A&M Dallas at Commerce? I'm getting lost.

[MooseLodge]

UT-Dallas is more of a "techie" school which caters to a large number students in engineering and healthcare-related fields, so I think football there would be a difficult sell. It also doesn't help that you have three FBS programs (SMU, TCU and UNT) within an hour of the UT-Dallas campus in Richardson.

You don't think those techies can ball?

[JakeTAMUC]

They are early favorite to win conference chess championship.

[ctrabs74]

You don't think those techies can ball?

Let's just say that I don't believe that football is a priority at UT-Dallas, a school which was originally a private institution founded by the founders of Texas Instruments (whose corporate offices are south of the UTD campus near 635/LBJ Freeway and 75/Central Expressway in Dallas) as the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest in 1962 (then, the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies in 1967) before being acquired by the State of Texas in 1969.

(Some useless UTD trivia: (a) the first full-time president of UT-Dallas was Bryce Jordan, who became president of Penn State when PSU joined the B1G back in the 1990s and whose name adorns Penn State's current basketball arena, and (b) one of the founders of TI was J. Erik Jonsson, who served as the mayor of Dallas from 1964-1971.)

[ASUPops]

The University of Texas at Dallas lacks the necessary infrastructure and resources to support a football program. As an academic institution with a significant international student population, UTD's primary focus is on providing a high-quality education and fostering academic excellence. Introducing a football program would deviate from this core mission and potentially compromise the university's academic standing.